Rank the Best to Worst Shows You've Seen in 2015

[GreenSharpie]

What were the great, mediocre, and bad shows you've seen this past year? This can include Broadway and off-Broadway. Rank them (#1 being the best).. I haven't seen enough to partake, but I'm curious what everyone's lists here will look like..

[Broadwaystar2]

This is so STUPID and rude! 

[newintown]

Not to be contrary, but there are just so many, I'd rather do 3 best/3 worst:

 

Three best shows of 2015: Fun Home, The Visit, The Legend of Georgia McBride.

Three worst shows of 2015 (much harder to narrow down): Gigi, It Shoulda Been You, Something Rotten.

[GreenSharpie]

Broadwaystar2 said: "This is so STUPID and rude! "

 

Why..? Is the phrasing 'favorite to least favorite' better? It comes down to subjective taste.

 

[quizking101]

1. Spring Awakening - This production was straight-up flawless in every way, and the use of sign language added a whole new thought-provoking layer of "disability as sexuality" to the show
2. Dames At Sea - It was just pure, light, daffy fun that wasn't afraid to poke fun at itself and kept me grinning from ear to ear.
3. The Last Ship - The score was excellent and I found myself very moved by the lead performances, as well as a great supporting cast.
4. Fun Home - Although I somewhat connected with this on a personal level, there were other shows I enjoyed more.
5.On The 20th Century - Daffy fun in the same vein as DAMES AT SEA, but there were other shows I enjoyed more.
6. Hand To God - The best play that I saw all year. (It just falls to #6 because many musicals were more enjoyable).
7. The Visit - If anything, I got a masterclass of a performance from Chita Rivera, even if the material was a bit dark and confusing in nature.
8. On Your Feet! - Although the concert scenes were excellent and full of Latin flair, the book scenes were contrived, leaden, and threatened to bring down the whole show.
9. Gigi - Vanessa Hudgens and Victoria Clark were excellent, but everything else seemed to be style-over-substance and made little sense (especially when compared with the film).
10. Fiddler On The Roof - Danny Burstein was fantastic, but the supporting cast lacked chemistry and the production design as a whole looked cheap, which surprised me considering Bartlett Sher was behind it.
11. Living On Love - Just a pure turd from start to finish. Although I got a few yucks, it was hardly worth the $19.57 I spent on it.
 

[LarryD2]

Best: Fun Home, John, A View From the Bridge, The Visit, Heisenberg, Fool For Love, Spring Awakening.

 

Worst: Fish in the Dark, It Shoulda Been You, The Gin Game, Night is a Room, Significant Other.

[FindingNamo]

Top 5 as of today

 

1. Hamilton

 

2. St. Joan, Bedlam from NYC 

 

3. A View from The Bridge, Ivo van Hove

 

4. Merchant of Venice, Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern

 

5. Saving Kitty, because it is so much fun to watch Jennifer Coolidge onstage

 

I've blocked out the bad.

 

[tazber]

Broadwaystar2 said: "This is so STUPID and rude! 

 

"

No it's not.

 

I recommend simply not opening a thread if you don't like it.

[FindingNamo]

Oemgee that's so rude to say!

[tazber]

And stupid!

[bandit964]

This is hard this year because I chose to see some good ones.  Didn't hate any of them.

In Order:

1. A View From the Bridge

2. Hamilton

3. John

4. Let the Right One In

5. Cabaret

6. Disgraced

7. Ghosts

8. Fun Home

9. King Charles III

10. Hand to God

11. Old Times

12. Constellations

13. Incident At Vichy

[funhamilton_rent]

Best to Worst:

1. Hamilton (duh)

2. Fun Home

3. Something Rotten!

4. On The 20th Century

5. Finding Neverland

6. Once

7. Bright Star

8. Aladdin

9. The Lion King

10. Gigi (I really didn't think it was bad, I just think that everything else I saw was better) 

[hork]

1. Fun Home

 

2. The King and I

3. Jersey Boys

4. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

 

5. Hamilton

[hork]

Broadwaystar2 said: "and rude! "

 

?????????

 

[Marianne2]

Favorites: An American In Paris, Dames at Sea, On the Twentieth Century, and Hand To God. And not a full show, but the Annie Get Your Gun concert.

 

Liked: Cabaret, Something Rotten, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,  and On the Town

 

Didn't care for: The Wild Party

[rosscoe(au)]

Best : Wolf Hall, Bent, Hand To God, The Visit, Fun Home , 

Enjoyable 20th Century, Finding Neverland.

[LizzieCurry]

Not everything; there were some repeats (guess which), so I excluded those. Some shows are hard to rank because I've seen them so many times, like when I went to the 10th anniversary Jersey Boys performance and Alfie Boe's first Valjean on Broadway. And I don't want to include/rank the rock-bottom of the list!

 

1. Let the Right One In
2. Fun Home
3. The Book of Mormon (London)
4. Spring Awakening
5. Hamilton
6. Dear Evan Hansen
7. Invisible Thread
8. A Little Night Music (ACT in San Francisco)
9. Finding Neverland
10. It Shoulda Been You
11. Mad Libs Live

[Hairspray0901]

Out of all the shows I've seen this year, off and on Broadway, current & previous seasons, here's my ranking of best to worst. I found this to be pretty difficult - the bottom five are definitely bottom for me, and same with the top 5. The middle are sort of all interchangeable. 

Something Rotten
The King & I
Curious Incident
Mamma Mia!
The Last Ship
An American In Paris
Waitress
Spring Awakening
Songbird
The Book of Mormon
Kinky Boots
If / Then
Beautiful
On the 20th Century
Gentleman's Guide
Wicked
Honeymoon In Vegas
A Month In The Country
Hand to G-d
The Visit
It Shoulda Been You
The Heidi Chronicles
Dames at Sea
 

[After Eight]

Best

 

Plays: Gigi, Fashions for Men, The Gin Game (revivals)

Musicals: Whoopee, Oh, Kay!, Gigi  (revivals), Sayonara, Allegiance

 

Worst

 Act of God, Hand to God, The Humans, Guards at the Taj

 

 

 

[MadonnaMusical]

THE BEST: there were soooo many of them... obvi HAMILTON, FUN HOME, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, INVISIBLE THREAD, HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, SPRING AWAKENING, JOHN, BAR-B-QUE, HAND TO GOD, SKY LIGHT, THE COLOR PURPLE

THE REST: LIVING ON LOVE, TRIP OF LOVE, THESE PAPER BULLETS

[Cupid Boy2]

Best:

1) Fun Home

2) Spring Awakening

3) The Visit

 

 

 

[peacelovemagic1]

Favorites: Hamilton, Fun Home, Spring Awakening, Curious Incident, The King and I, Invisible Thread, The Heidi Chronicles, The Audience, Shows for Days

Enjoyed: An American In Paris, Something Rotten, A View From The Bridge, Brooklynite, The Visit 

Not my cup of tea: Hand to God,It Shoulda Been You, Gigi, Dada Woof Papa Hot 

[jbird5]

Musicals: Cabaret, Fun Home, Spring Awakening, Lazarus, Vinegar Tom, Hedwig(DC), Songbird, Georgia McBride, Gigi, Wild Party

Plays: The Flick, Skylight, Sylvia, Wolf Hall Pt 1,Fulfillment, Threesome, Let the Right One In, The Nether, Fool for Love, John, The Way We Get By, Desire, Hand to God, The Mysteries of Love & Sex,  Lost Girls, Summer Shorts, The Audience, King Charles III, A View from the Bridge, An Act of God, Sex of the Baby, Neighborhood 3, Pim's Mission, Sense of an Ending, Pondling, Student Body, Wolf Hall Pt 2, China Doll, Permission, Take Care, Night is a Room, Exit the King (Philly Fringe), Judith, Old Times, Therese Raquin

[ChildofEarth]

Best to Worst:

Hamilton

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (w. John Cameron Mitchell)

Fun Home

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (w. Michael C. Hall)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (w. Darren Criss)

Hand to God

Spring Awakening

An American in Paris

The King & I

The Color Purple

Dames at Sea

Something Rotten

Allegiance

Les Miserables

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (w. Taye Diggs)

Finding Neverland

 

[ebontoyan]

I saw 17 shows in 4 trips to NYC in 2015 and my best shows (that opened in 2014-2015): Hamilton, On the 20th Century (I saw 3x, counted only one of 17),  Something Rotten, The Last Ship, Amazing Grace, Altar Boyz reunion concert at 54 below

Also liked these shows that opened in prior years: Les Miz, Wicked, Mamma Mia, Beautiful, Alladin, Matilda

Just ok: The King and I, On the Town

The rest were plays